We are excited to advertise a webinar next week from Cardiff University that explores the benefits of integrating open data and open access publications in your research.
One of the speakers at the event will be Professor Ben Jervis, Professor of Medieval Archaeology from the University of Leicester, who recently deposited the digital archive with the ADS for the ‘Living Standards and Material Culture in English Rural Households’ project. Ben will be speaking about this project and how the data archive and open access monograph work together.
The webinar will take place online at 16:00 on Tuesday 24th October and you can register for the event from this webpage. More about the project can be found below.
Webinar Abstract
The Living Standards and Material Culture in English Rural Households project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, was an interdisciplinary analysis of the possessions of non-elite households in later medieval and Tudor England. Key to the project has been the production of an Open-source dataset (available through the Archaeology Data Service) linked to an Open Access monograph. This webinar will briefly introduce the project and its outputs, and demonstrate the value and potential of an integrated Open Access model.
The Living Standards and Material Culture in English Rural Households project
This was a Leverhulme Trust funded project, which examined the archaeological and historical evidence for material culture in English medieval rural households. The research explored non-elite households in villages and small towns by focusing on reconstructing and interpreting the range of goods possessed by agriculturalists, craftsmen and traders, and labourers. Archaeological and archival evidence was collected and analysed for fifteen different counties. The archive interface allows you to query these databases and download the source data for reuse. Further information can be found in the Internet Archaeology data paper that accompanies the archive.
ADS Archive
Alice Forward, Ben Jervis, Chris Briggs, Mathew Tompkins, Tomasz Gromelski (2021) Living Standards and Material Culture in English Rural Households 1300-1600: Digital Archive [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1085022
Internet Archaeology Article
Briggs, C., Forward, A. and Jervis, B. (2021). ‘Living standards and material culture in English Rural households 1300-1600’. Data Paper, Internet Archaeology 56. https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.56.14
